Mar 20, 2022
Ask Ethan: What Is The ‘Zero-Point Energy’ Of Space?
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: futurism
Even if you remove everything you can from the Universe, some energy will still remain. Here’s what that means.
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Mar 20, 2022
A Surprise Finding About Mouse Vision Could Change Our View of Cognition
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: neuroscience
Being able to tell the difference between a photo of something and the actual thing itself – picture-to-object equivalence, in science speak – is a useful test for better understanding the visual and cognitive function of other primates, birds, and even rats.
But how far does this ability to interpret a flat image extend in the animal kingdom?
A new study has found mice might also have the capacity, as they demonstrated the ability to link a 2D image of an object with the actual 3D object itself, using the hippocampus part of their brains in the same way that humans do.
Mar 20, 2022
Discovery of cells that prevent particularly important genes from mutating
Posted by Dan Breeden in categories: biotech/medical, genetics
For many decades, evolutionary biologists assumed that the changes in DNA, known as mutations, occur irrespective of any consequences for the organism. A team led by Professor Detlef Weigel, Director at the Max Planck Institute …
Mar 20, 2022
Artificial Intelligence: Can AI Ever Become Conscious, And Other Burning Questions
Posted by Dan Breeden in category: robotics/AI
Use of AI techniques has shown significantly better performance in many natural language processing tasks, including machine translation and question-answering, as compared to hand-coded rules by linguistics or other computer science methods.
Mar 20, 2022
Cognitive distortions linked to safetyism beliefs, support for trigger warnings, and the belief that words are harmful
Posted by Nicholi Avery in category: neuroscience
𝐂𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐚𝐟𝐞𝐭𝐲𝐢𝐬𝐦 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟𝐬, 𝐬𝐮𝐩𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐫 𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐧𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐛𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐞𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐟𝐮𝐥
𝘾𝙤𝙜𝙣𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙚 𝙙𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣𝙨 𝙖𝙧𝙚 𝙚𝙧𝙧𝙤𝙧𝙨 𝙞𝙣 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙨𝙤… See more.
A new correlational study, published in Personality and Individual Differences, found empirical support for these claims by finding an association between frequency of cognitive distortions and stronger safetyism-inspired beliefs.
Mar 20, 2022
Carbon-Capture Startup Using Dirt Cheap Material Raises $53 Million
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in category: materials
Heirloom uses cheap and widely available limestone to suck carbon from the air. The latest funds will help build its first pilot-scale facility.
Mar 20, 2022
Who’s driving that food delivery bot? It might be a Gen Z gamer
Posted by Shubham Ghosh Roy in categories: employment, food, robotics/AI
Automation will create new types of jobs.
Delivery robots seem to be everywhere these days. Keeping them out of trouble are human minders who might need to hop on a bike to finish the delivery themselves.
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Mar 20, 2022
Quantifying Biological Age: Blood Test #2 in 2022
Posted by Mike Lustgarten in categories: biotech/medical, life extension
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Mar 20, 2022
What are the Switchblade ‘kamikaze’ drones the US is sending to Ukraine?
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: drones, electronics
· They have on-board video cameras and colour sensors to aid with guidance.
· They are essentially camera-equipped, remote-controlled flying bombs that can be directed by an operator to find a target then, when ready, plunge on to it. They explode on contact, hence the “kamikaze” nickname.
Switchblades extend the range of attack on Russian vehicles and units to beyond the sight of the user. That gives them an advantage over the guided heat-seeking missiles the Ukrainians have used against Russian tanks.
Mar 20, 2022
AI and Human Enhancement: Americans’ Openness Is Tempered by a Range of Concerns
Posted by Kelvin Dafiaghor in categories: economics, information science, policy, robotics/AI, surveillance, transportation
Developments in artificial intelligence and human enhancement technologies have the potential to remake American society in the coming decades. A new Pew Research Center survey finds that Americans see promise in the ways these technologies could improve daily life and human abilities. Yet public views are also defined by the context of how these technologies would be used, what constraints would be in place and who would stand to benefit – or lose – if these advances become widespread.
Fundamentally, caution runs through public views of artificial intelligence (AI) and human enhancement applications, often centered around concerns about autonomy, unintended consequences and the amount of change these developments might mean for humans and society. People think economic disparities might worsen as some advances emerge and that technologies, like facial recognition software, could lead to more surveillance of Black or Hispanic Americans.
This survey looks at a broad arc of scientific and technological developments – some in use now, some still emerging. It concentrates on public views about six developments that are widely discussed among futurists, ethicists and policy advocates. Three are part of the burgeoning array of AI applications: the use of facial recognition technology by police, the use of algorithms by social media companies to find false information on their sites and the development of driverless passenger vehicles.
